There are many kinds of truth. Al Gore was poleaxed by an inconvenient one yesterday.
Mr Gore, in a speech at the climate summit, said the latest research showed that the Arctic could be completely ice-free in five years.
In his speech, Mr. Gore told the conference: “These figures are fresh. Some of the models suggest to Dr. [Wieslav] Maslowski that there is a 75 per cent chance that the entire north polar ice cap, during the summer months, could be completely ice-free within five to seven years.
However, the climatologist whose work Mr. Gore was relying upon dropped the former Vice-President in the water with an icy blast.
Mr. Gore’s office later admitted that the 75 per cent figure was one used by Dr. Maslowksi as a “ballpark figure” several years ago in a conversation with Mr. Gore.
“It’s unclear to me how this figure was arrived at,” Dr. Maslowski said. “I would never try to estimate likelihood at anything as exact as this.”
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